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Composition materials for junior high school students: What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

The custom activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are carried out in the form of watching dragons and praying for disaster relief in John Lone. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive, with strong regional characteristics. Specific customs and activities mainly include: picking dragon boats, hanging wormwood and calamus, gathering for lunch, taking a bath in the Dragon Boat Festival, flying kites, swinging, tying hundreds of suozi, giving incense fans, drying ginger for a hundred days, boating, having lunch, soaking in dragon boat water, worshiping the Nine Lions, putting paper dragons, lighting moxa sticks, smoking Atractylodes, grabbing green flowers, riding horses, hanging Zhong Kui statues and enjoying flowers.

The Dragon Boat Festival is rich in various folk customs, but there are differences in customs content or details due to different regions. Picking a dragon boat (hiding from the black dragon) and eating zongzi (hiding from the main star Antares) are the two major themes of the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival food includes zongzi, Huang Wu, wormwood cake, mugwort, cakes, fried piles, tea eggs, ruling cakes, calamus wine, realgar wine and afternoon tea.